Susana Tavares is a intuitive artist. Using mixed media techniques to express her whimsical world of soul paintings. Each one representing the beauty, innocence and uniqueness of the Spirit.
Paintings, filled with color that connect with the natural and spiritual world. Art that carries joy, insight, bringing peace and positive energy to you.

2011-03-24

But sometimes I wished I was able to better explain myself to others, letting them really know what goes on in my mind and soul. Sometimes I get really anxious for not being able to get through to people around me, simply because l lack the words for it, or they come out in a way that doesn’t quite get there.

What I hear inside me, what comforts me, I like to call "my angels". They say to me "You write through your art ... don’t worry "...

I’ve just finished watching a video from the author of the bestseller "Eat, Pray, Love”, Elizabeth Gilbert, and the tears poured down my face. When she speaks about the creative process and claims to believe that a part of her gift of being creative comes from some divine place, is something I can review myself into.

I also believe that a part of my work comes from some sort of a connection to the divine. A kind of personal mission to go through, in this world. Last week, for no particular reason, painting about water, crossed my mind. Without knowing why, and without ever having painted about water, I really felt complied to draw my attention to water and the sea.

This had never been an inspiration for me before, although I love being by the sea, on the beach...

I started painting and it came to be such a natural process, that I felt this painting as a healing process. Something that was healing me, as if I was setting myself free of something... a different creative process, but at the same time important. I just know that for sure... but I am unable to put it down in words... I’m sorry!

Another example was when I was starting a new painting, beginning from the background, setting out the canvas. As I looked at it, I was able to clearly identify a shape of this sailor, looking at me, telling me: “Paint me please”.

I rarely paint men, generally only on family portraits. Sailors, even less!.. Sincerely at first, I tried to avoid it/him, go around it and do something else.

But then, I stopped and said to myself: “Stop running around, and do it!”
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Note: This is the last day you can comment, to win an issue of Somerset Studio Gallery and a print "Today I am a Garden" in an A4 size. Please Like and comment in my Facebook fans page in the picture where says GIVEAWAY

2011-03-16

I am making a Giveaway of this wonderful issue of Somerset Studio Galllery winter 2011 (with me inside ;) in my Atelier Susana Tavares page on Facebook....Please "Like" the page and comment. Friday I will do a drawing and announce the winner here on my Blog....Good luck!!!!

If you Like to know more about me you can read this interview (it´s in Portuguese...but you can make a translation :) in Samariquinhas blog

2011-03-14

it is an amazing marketplace where you can find wonderful and one of a kind handmade dolls.

﻿Doll Town sprung out of well-known cloth and clay Doll group... a group of hundreds of international doll makers who have been making dolls together, sharing tips and techniques and supporting one another

Please be sure to visit this magic place where you can find my latest speial Art Dolls here

Every single Doll are created in my studio with all the care and love. Each one is special to me...and when a doll is adopted and goes to a new family I always say goodbye....I don´t know why but for me they have a special soul...

I´m going to give a workshop in my studio in Lisbon / Portugal and I´m asking if someone is intrested in participate in this class. But you guys are so far away...that I have post in Portuguese today :)

2011-03-01

I don´t know why but every time I present myself and my work in public events such as art fairs, I often come across people telling me "Oh! Your dolls and the faces you paint are so much like you!" Yes! I have noticed that the my eyes are very similar to the ones I paint. Moreover I came to realise, during the workshops I lecture in my own studio, specialy when I'm teatching others to draw faces, that almost everyone has a natural tendency to draw their own eyes, at least when they are drawing from within, from the heart ...

About me...

I am Susana Tavares, a mixed media artist, that love watercolors. I am Portuguese but now i´m living in Brussels. Beauty and color are my inspirations to express my inner world. May my art, bring you glimpses of magic!